
Our Ethos
Our people are your people.
We are risk managers, security consultants, technical specialist, medical clinicians, adventurers, writers, producers, and content creators who share a similar passion for exploring remote and extreme environments while keeping people safe. But we also scaffold our responsible travel policy on three key areas.

Minimising our impact on the environment and protecting the planet.

Improving health literacy through education programs and cultural competence.

Creating a safe and positive working environment for all staff
Explora Medicine
Thrive in the unknown
We don’t just survive in these environments, our team thrives, so if you have a project requiring remote medical care that you’d like help with please get in touch.
The Explora Medicine Story
Welcome to Explora Medicine
At Explora Medicine, adventure and medicine meet in the world’s most extreme environments.
Founded by Sunny Whitfield, a former recon soldier and combat medic turned expedition specialist, Explora Medicine was born from real-world experience — surviving conflict zones, wildlife encounters, natural disasters, and everything in between. What started as a series of near-misses and hard-won lessons evolved into a mission: to make remote and expedition medicine safer, smarter, and more effective.
Sunny later joined forces with Nick Abussi, a critical care paramedic, dive medicine expert, and educator whose career has taken him from the ocean floor to high mountain passes. Together, they’ve built a network of world-class safety advisers, risk managers, and medical professionals who thrive in the unknown.
Whether supporting a film crew in the jungle, an expedition team in the Himalayas, or a research mission in the desert, Explora Medicine delivers risk management and medical excellence where others won’t go.
Explora Medicine — Thrive in the Unknown.
Mission
Assist people thrive in the unknown
Sunny's Books
Every book sold here is supporting safe water projects in India, Nepal and Uganda.
Read a good yarn, support a good cause.
Discussing the challenges of providing medical care whilst being chased by pirates, to sharing an ambulance with a monkey, to retrieving a patient from near the cauldron of an erupting volcano, ‘Helicopters, coconuts, volcanoes and sled dogs’ will put you in the passenger seat as the responders navigate their way through the unique challenges faced by remote medics. Sunny’s stories provide a rare insight into the lives of the extraordinary but genuine people of remote health care, the many extremely challenging situations they face, and the initiative and resourcefulness they demonstrate when other help is far away. Time matters distance matters, resources matter, but the ultimate story of life is that which plays out through circumstance and responses.
With a medley of experiences from the earliest days as a student paramedic, qualified officer, humanitarian health assistant, and high altitude medical officer, this book has underpinned the story of an everyday paramedic. Whilst thousands of ambulance officers, emergency medical technicians and paramedics criss-cross their way through communities around the world to provide support to people, 'Here Hold My Drink and Watch This' has captured a rare insight into the real people of paramedicine. Written from a down-to-earth perspective, Sunny brings to life the challenging and confronting work paramedics are faced with on a daily basis yet also finds some humour and consolation amongst the confusion and chaos.
Contact hello@exploramedicine.com.au
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